The Co-Involvement of Light and Air Temperature in Regulation of Sex Expression in Monoecious Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48960#.VJjgNcCAM4 Author(s) Lina Wang , Xiaoyu Yang , Zhonghai Ren , Xiufeng Wang Affiliation(s) College of Horticulture Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China . School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China . State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Tai’an, China . State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Tai’an, China . ABSTRACT The combination effects of light and air temperature, which were expressed as photothermal ratio (PTR), on the growth and sex expression of three monoecious cucumbers ( Cucumis sativus L. cv. “Xintaimici”, “Jinyan 3” and “J...